...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactment
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...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactment
Hi to you good folks,
My daughter is part of a medieval re-enactment longbow archers group, I have made on wool dress for her, but neither of us are very impressed with the results,please can anyone who might know point me in the direction of easy to follow patterns for clothing and a material supplier both need to be low cost.
Many thanks
Bx
My daughter is part of a medieval re-enactment longbow archers group, I have made on wool dress for her, but neither of us are very impressed with the results,please can anyone who might know point me in the direction of easy to follow patterns for clothing and a material supplier both need to be low cost.
Many thanks
Bx
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Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
try Sally Pointer
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Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
Of course...thank you
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If you find an authentic pattern for any day-to-day medieval stuff (rather than the over-fanciful dreamy stuff) PLEASE let me know. I've been looking for eight years now. I've got the general gist (which I'm beginning to suspect is all that there is to get), but that's about all. And I REALLY want to know what Dionisia Pictrix wore. She's a long-dead lady with a very important tale to tell.
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Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
You could also try here: http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/forums/
My dresses are made out of 100% Cotton (quite a heavy weight material) and is 100% accurate in material as well as wool. If you make the shift out of lightweight white cotton it makes it nice and cool.
The last re-enactment exhibition we did was in sweltering hot weather and I was dreading wearing all my garb but with the shift and the cotton dress, however heavy it might seem, it was actually cooler than in modern day clothes :)
My dresses are made out of 100% Cotton (quite a heavy weight material) and is 100% accurate in material as well as wool. If you make the shift out of lightweight white cotton it makes it nice and cool.
The last re-enactment exhibition we did was in sweltering hot weather and I was dreading wearing all my garb but with the shift and the cotton dress, however heavy it might seem, it was actually cooler than in modern day clothes :)
Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
I can't help out with fabric suppliers, but I can help out with patterns as i used to be in the SCA (Society for Creatice Anachronists) which is a international medieval reenactment group. Here are some links to some of the costuming resources used in the SCA:
http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/
http://www.virtue.to/
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... khome.html
http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/
http://www.costumes.org/
http://www.florilegium.org/
Hope you find this useful
http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/wsnlinks/
http://www.virtue.to/
http://www.personal.utulsa.edu/~marc-ca ... khome.html
http://www.reconstructinghistory.com/
http://www.costumes.org/
http://www.florilegium.org/
Hope you find this useful
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You guys are brilliant thank you
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[ I've been looking for eight years now. I've got the general gist (which I'm beginning to suspect is all that there is to get), but that's about all. And I REALLY want to know what Dionisia Pictrix wore. She's a long-dead lady with a very important tale to tell.
Well I've Googled her and all I can find is in Italian or french or spnish anyway Icant read it, so please tell!
Well I've Googled her and all I can find is in Italian or french or spnish anyway Icant read it, so please tell!
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Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
Dionisia Pictrix was one of the ladies who lived in my village in the 13th century (she lived very near to where I do now), and she's mentioned only in the Cartulary of the local Priory. We also have a 13th century Doom Painting on the wall of the village church (once the Priory church). Dionisia, as her name suggests, was a painter (and a woman, therefore a rarity). In the corner of the Doom Painting (in Hell, in other words) is a spinning wheel, and I doubt any bloke would have painted such a thing, let alone consigned it to Hell. In the centre of the painting is a very ordinary lady rising from her coffin - no crowns, no flowing robes, but she IS wearing a very time-worn something. She shouldn't be in the centre.
My suspicion is that it was Dionisia who did most of the Doom Painting work, and that figure in the centre is her signature.
Yes - I'm fascinated by Dionisia
Mike
EDIT: Sorry - not 13th century at all, but 1300s - i.e. 14th century
My suspicion is that it was Dionisia who did most of the Doom Painting work, and that figure in the centre is her signature.
Yes - I'm fascinated by Dionisia
Mike
EDIT: Sorry - not 13th century at all, but 1300s - i.e. 14th century
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Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
Sorry I can't be of help with the pattern but what about a cotton type of smock. Should be fairly easy to work out. Maybe take an old over sized shirt and adjust the measurements a bit. Sorry might be a rubbish suggestion.
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Re: ...find an authentic pattern and material for re enactme
Hi MKG, thanks for the extra information on Dionisia Pictrix. From what you have said she would most likely be of the working class of the 14th Century, which means she would most likely have been wearing a woolen cotehardie with very little in the way of embellishments eg, fur eleaborate embroidery etc. Fashions changed much more slowly in medieval times than they do now and the cotehardie was the main type of dress worn in the 14th century, she may have had a sideless surcoat too but only if she lived in the 2nd half of that century. I've included some links with pictures and some with instruction for cotehardie patterns:
http://www.3owls.org/sca/costume/garb4.htm
http://www.costumes.org/history/100page ... hcent1.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/oldenfeld/garb.html#14TH
let us know if this is what you've been looking for
http://www.3owls.org/sca/costume/garb4.htm
http://www.costumes.org/history/100page ... hcent1.htm
http://www.angelfire.com/fl2/oldenfeld/garb.html#14TH
let us know if this is what you've been looking for
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Hi,
MKG, that.s a fascinating story keep on with the research I'd love to hear more.
AuroraOz
These are really useful links thank you.
I've got several books on the way and Sally Pointers' basic gown might well be the way forward
Thank you everyone pictures to follow....when I've worked it all out:)
MKG, that.s a fascinating story keep on with the research I'd love to hear more.
AuroraOz
These are really useful links thank you.
I've got several books on the way and Sally Pointers' basic gown might well be the way forward
Thank you everyone pictures to follow....when I've worked it all out:)
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